ScottR

Had two LDs this morning, which is a first for me.

I woke up from the first at 6:35am. It started as a false awakening, but I noticed there were some cardboard boxes on my bed. This caused me to do a RC, and when I could breathe through my plugged nose I became lucid. The first thing I did was look at my hands, but I couldn't see them. I stared at where they should be, and eventually they materialized. After staring at them for a little while they became more clear. I put my hand on the side of the bed and tried to get up, but found myself laying flat on my back with the clarity fading. I looked at my hands again and tried to get up, but the same thing happened. This repeated for a while, each time getting a little further out of bed. I eventually stood up, but wound up back in bed, so I just gave up and teleported myself to the window.

I opened the window shade, and I was about 300 feet up in the sky, half over the ocean and half over a beach with a mountainous jungle in the background. I had wanted to fly in my next LD, so I guess this was a fly or die way to learn. I crawled halfway out the window, but felt the dream fading again so I grabbed the windowsill until the clarity came back. I then crawled all the way out and began to plummet. My stomach lurched like I was actually falling, but I was able to quiet it. I alternated between flying like superman, and falling to the ocean for a while, until I fell close to the surface. I pulled up at the last minute, weaving between wading people in a very uncontrolled flight (I was upside down half the time).

I ended up sliding into the beach near the waters edge. I tried to get up and walk, but I was too dizzy to stand. I ended up crawling up the beach (which was littered with flip flops, beach chairs, and people) towards a little girl sitting in a chair. I stopped and sat down just past her and tried practicing my telekinesis on an empty can. It started to wiggle, then I woke up.

I woke up from the second around 8:15am. This was a WILD actually induced by reading an article on Dream Views. I went in to the dream knowing I was dreaming, but I didn't try to control it. Instead, I tried to convince my girlfriend that we were in a dream. About halfway through, I started to doubt whether I was dreaming, so I tried my normal breathing RC, but it failed. So I tried the finger through hand RC for the first time in my dream and it worked, which felt a little weird. The only aspect I tried to control, was a wave that rushed towards me as I lounged out on the beach. I managed to project a force field around me for a second, but it quickly failed and the water rushed over me, waking me up. However, it was only a FA. I discussed the LD I just had with my girlfriend in the FA, then went back to sleep within the FA. From here, I actually managed to DIELD into another LD that lasted for a little while.

When I woke up for real, I realized I had just had a LD within a FA after a LD, and I had to pause and look around for Leonardo DiCaprio and Joseph Gordon Levitt because I could've sworn I was in Inception. Overall it was an interesting experience.